Even without independent analysis from the Congressional Budget Office, one of the effects of the current plan to overhaul Obamacare is clear. The bill – known as Cassidy-Graham after Sens. Bill Cassidy, R-La., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who sponsored it – will cut government spending on health care. It has to: If it doesn’t reduce the federal budget, it isn’t eligible for the reconciliation rules in the Senate that would let it pass without facing a filibuster.